Stellies student who built edtech Taptic and took on SASSA fraud eyes Africa expansion – Veer Gosai

Stellies student who built edtech Taptic and took on SASSA fraud eyes Africa expansion – Veer Gosai

Author: BizNews April 24, 2026 Duration: 15:51
Stellenbosch student‑turned‑founder Veer Gosai built an edtech platform serving millions of school pupils with free past exam papers – and he’s not only a tech entrepreneur. A stolen ID led him to uncover fraud in the SASSA grant system. In this BizNews interview, Gosai talks about how his exam‑prep platform Taptic has expanded to seven African countries, with another eight in his sights; why he believes AI is detrimental to the youth in a country where more than 80% of Grade 4s cannot read for meaning; and, in an interesting titbit, how his data shows that Grade 9s are the “laziest” learners in South Africa. – Linda van Tilburg

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